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Quartics, sextics and G_2 structures

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  • UserMaciej Dunajski (DAMTP)
  • ClockTuesday 27 October 2015, 16:00-17:00
  • HouseMR11.

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I will review the 19th century classical invariant theory of Cayley and Sylvester, and present a solution of an outstanding open problem concerning binary sextics. This will be used in a twistor construction of explicit closed G_2 structures. This is joint work with Roger Penrose.

This talk is part of the Mathematical Physics Seminar series.

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